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Top 10 lies in online dating profiles

Do most online dating profiles seem too good to be true? There's a reason for that. Research shows at least 81 percent of online daters have lied in their profile. Click through to see the top 10 lies to watch out for when you're looking for your match.

10. Profile picture is old

Catalina L. Toma, an assistant professor in the department of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the New York Times that women’s profile photographs were on average a year and a half old. Men’s were six months old.

9. Connections to celebrities

Want to make yourself sound interesting? Tell people you know celebrities. BeautifulPeople.com found a small percentage of men and women lied about having ties to celebrities.

8. Hobbies and interests

"If everyone who says they 'love museums' and 'go to them all the time' were telling the truth, every museum in the world would look like Walmart on Black Friday," says Vice's Brian Moylan. Daters run the risk of sounding boring if they have only a couple hobbies, so many "interests" are exaggerated.

7. Lifestyle

People live much more exciting lives in their dating profiles than in real life, according to BeautifulPeople.com. Many people claim to have more money than they actually do, and others claim to travel more than they do.

6. Job type and title

Forty-two percent of men surveyed by BeautifulPeople.com lied about their job and 37 percent of women did. Common lies are about job title, how interesting their job is and how important they are at their work.

5. Income

A study of user profiles by dating site OKCupid finds people on average exaggerate their income by 20 percent.

4. Age

Nearly one-third of men lied about their age in a study by BeautifulPeople.com, compared to 17 percent of women.

3. Physique

The options on dating sites such as "slender" and "about average" leave room for interpretation, and research shows people tend to stretch the truth in this area.

2. Weight

Research from BeautifulPeople.com says men will add or subtract a few pounds, while women tend to only subtract pounds.

1. Height

According to research by dating site OKCupid, heights reported are on average two inches higher than in real life.

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